Playwright Quotes

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.
When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.
Zombies are eternal. They're like dinosaurs.
I don't believe in updating. If a play works, it draws something from being true to its time.
I remember how I would wait for a play idea. I wasted a tremendous amount of time. I didn't realize that ideas could be made into movies or novels.
I think of myself as a storyteller.
I'd like to walk into a room sometime and be introduced as the author of something other than that play. There's always one thing in a career that has more impact than anything else. In my case, 'The Subject Was Roses' was that thing.
The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.
You reach a time... when fact and fiction blend seamlessly. If you do it too soon, it's journalism. If you do it too late, you forget, and it's fantasy. There's an optimum time.
You're looking at a guy who has no reason to complain about anything.
Young men who have been away, been to war, they are different when they come home.
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
I always believe things are going to work out.
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
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